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Bizarre stories from a peculiar place. On the edge of the West Cliff in Bournemouth UK, balanced between sea and land and sky, the twisting paths and dark pine trees inspire strange stories of the strange folk who have inhabited that weird place. A new story every week from the pen of master story-teller Peter John Cooper. Funny, sad, murders, spirits and the down right ordinary. Commuting to work, drifting off to sleep, making breakfast, there’s a story for you here. Tales from the Cliff Edge has been selected as one of the top 15 UK story telling sites by Feedspot: https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_storytelling_podcasts/ I live on the cliff top. I’m looking out across Poole Bay to the English Channel and the world beyond. This is a mysterious in-between sort of place, not only the meeting of sea and land and the sky but also a shifting, joyful, melancholy realm where nothing is permanent and reality and fantasy collide. I’m Peter John Cooper and I’ve made my living for the past fifty years telling stories. In this podcast I’m going to share some of them with you. They’re not all about this clifftop place, of course, but they all come from that strange in between world of the imagination. Let’s go inside, make a cup of tea and I’ll tell you today’s tale.
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Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020
15 min
Have you ever gone upstairs and wondered what you went up there for? Consider the plight of English academic Julius Grant who sets off on a world tour and begins by crossing Southampton Water on the Hythe Ferry.
Dec 26, 2020
Dec 26, 2020
13 min
One of the more mysterious traditions of Christmas is revealed here. How St Soupage played his greatest practical joke, came to a sticky end but lived to tell the tale.
Dec 20, 2020
Dec 20, 2020
17 min
The cantankerous old miser wins a round of applause. Thanks to his one-legged manservant Phillips. A Ten Minute Tale for the Festive Season.
Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
14 min
The fair city of Belgrade is besieged with rats. What is to be done? Then one day a strange man arrives with an idea
Dec 15, 2020
Dec 15, 2020
14 min
Have you ever travelled in a Slip Coach? Do you know what a Slip Coach is? A spooky story to start this series of a mysterious event on a ramshackle old Railway. Told by master of eccentric story telling Peter John Cooper.